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Conor Perry

Conor Perry

Sep 30, 2026

5:26
can call us nerds, it's okay.
5:29
Well, it's always tricky to communicate technical nuts and bolts policy issues to non-specialists.
5:37
And when you're thinking about a product like the ESN, which from the perspective of nerds like you, Richard, is a derivative project of the covered bond, in order to communicate that, you'll often have to begin from the idea of what a covered bond is.
5:53
But when it comes to policy change and change in general, I think that stories are important and narratives and policymaking matter a lot.
6:03
And so you can achieve momentum behind a policy project without getting into the fundamentals of over-flateralization ratios and the HQLA eligibility of an ESN being essential to drive treasury investors, which will increase the liquidity of the market, etc.
6:21
You can think about putting it forward that in Europe, we have a financing system for SMEs, which is based on bank loans.
6:33
It's something like 70 to 80% of European businesses, European finance is channeled through banks to SMEs.
9:54
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